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Galley proofs. Proofs (printed matter).

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: First proofs printed from type, usually meaning those printed before it is made up into pages.

Found in 107 Collections and/or Records:

Galley proofs for the published work ‘Poems’ by Lord Byron, with annotations., ? 1816.

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Identifier: MS.43403
Scope and Contents Corrected galley proofs of three poems featured in ‘Poems’ by Lord Byron published by John Murray in 1816.The poems here begin ‘When we two parted’, ‘Bright be the place of thy soul’, and ‘Must thou go, my glorious chief’.‘When we two parted’ was first published as a song sheet with music by Isaac Nthan in 1815.‘Bright be the place of thy soul’ first appeared in ‘The Examiner’, 11th June 1815.‘Must thou go, my glorious chief’ is also known as...
Dates: ? 1816.

Galley proofs of "A Symposium on the After War Religion", unpublished work edited by Denis Saurat, and including an essay of Hugh MacDiarmid.

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Identifier: Acc.9410
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With five letters to Robert S Silver, three from Saurat and one each from MacDiarmid and Robert McLellan.

Dates: 1946-1952.

Galley proofs of A W Kinglake, "Battle of Inkerman", with author`s amendments.

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Identifier: Acc.4270
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Corresponding to volume 5, pp 31 et seq of "The Invasion of the Crimea".

Dates: Undated

Geography notes, chiefly by Elisée Reclus with typescript of his lectures, 1930., ?1920-[1936], undated.

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Identifier: MS.10631
Scope and Contents Also included are typescripts of memoranda by Paul Otlet on the Palais Mondial (folio 99), a lecture, undated, by Marcel Hardy on botanical geography (folio 148), a typescript of a paper, ?1920, by H W Lyons, Professor of Economics at Indore Christian College (folio 164), and a typescript and revised galley-proof of 'A museum of human geography at Domme, Dordogne', by Arthur Geddes, published in ‘Geography’, volume xxi (1936), pages 226-227 (the typescript is falsely dated 1946) (folio...
Dates: ?1920-[1936], undated.

Letters of Lady John Scott to her nephew William Moore and his wife., ?1891, 1892-1898, undated.

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Identifier: MS.10993, folios 138-166
Scope and Contents

Also included are notes by the donor, Marjorie Moore, and galley proofs from her biography of Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, ‘Adventure in the Royal Navy’. Three of Lady John Scott's letters are printed in this work (page 106).

Dates: ?1891, 1892-1898, undated.

Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family.

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Identifier: MSS.511-518
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There are no letters of Thomas Carlyle to his father. Several letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle (sometimes added to Carlyle’s letters as postscripts) and of various members of Carlyle’s family are included. Other writers are Daniel Corrie, Bishop of Madras, 1836; W H Wills, ‘Editor and factotum‘ of Charles Dickens, 1855; and Rudolf Sonnenburg, who brought out a German edition of ‘Frederick’, 1867. There are also letters of Carlyle to Whewell, 1861, Emerson, 1869, and others.

Dates: 1821-1870, undated.

Letters of Thomas Carlyle to his family, with undated drafts and miscellanea., 27 June 1865-1870, undated.

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Identifier: MS.518
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Includes 22 draft letters, ?1867-?1870, an "Author’s note of 1868" to 'Sartor Resartus', a page of manuscript of 'Past and present', a note for 'Cromwell', a galley-proof of 'Frederick', other fragments, a book-plate, and a stencil for a silhouette.

Dates: 27 June 1865-1870, undated.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Elsey to Elton., 1809-1912.

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Identifier: MS.40379
Scope and Contents All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Elsey, Elizabeth Theresa.Letter, 1898, of Elizabeth Theresa Elsey to John Murray IV. Folios 1-2.Elsmie, George Robert.Letters, 1898-1904 and 1907, of George Robert Elsmie to John Murray IV and Alexander Henry Hallam Murray. Folios 3-131.Folio 51. Galley proofs, 1899, of ‘Lumsden of the Guides’, published by John Murray in 1899. Sent as an...
Dates: 1809-1912.

Manuscript and corrected galley proofs of Christopher Murray Grieve, "Hugh MacDiarmid's" contribution to 'Celtic nationalism' and manuscript of 'Four Scottish poets, an unpublished work of MacDiarmid., [1968, or before], 1971.

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Identifier: MS.27052
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript of section 1 and corrected galley-proof of Hugh MacDiarmid's contribution to ‘Celtic nationalism’ (London, 1968) (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript of 'Four Scottish Poets', an unpublished work on Gavin Douglas, Byron, Robert Burns and James Macpherson, 1971 (folio 42). The section on Burns is missing, and there are two manuscripts of the section on Byron (folios 67, 105).

Dates: [1968, or before], 1971.